Sunday, November 24, 2024

Loud Calls For Global Shipping To Ditch Fossil Fuels And Meet Climate Goals

Hellenic Shipping News Oil & Gas 360 Publishers Note: Very interesting article with some nice nuggets. Don’t agree with  many of the view points, but still an interesting article.   At UN Climate Week this week, calls have increased for shipping to urgently ditch fossil fuels to meet the planet’s climate goals. The global shipping industry remains weakly regulated and is

Exxon Touts Carbon Capture as a Climate Fix, but Uses It to Maximize Profit and Keep Oil Flowing – follow the money for the true story

inside climate news Oil & Gas Publishers Note: This is an excellent article by Nicholas Kunetz, and worth your time to read. He covers an excellent discussion of the carbon capture as a bi-partisan supported climate change discussion in the energy news. There are several key takeaways: (1) Exxon, BP, and other major oil companies have stated plans to move

UAE nuclear energy plant Unit 1 -oilandgas360

UAE nuclear energy plant Unit 1 reaches 50% power capacity

Trade Arabia The reactor of Unit 1 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in the UAE has achieved 50% of its electricity production capacity, said Nawah Energy Company, the joint venture nuclear operations and maintenance subsidiary of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) and Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco). The milestone was announced on the sidelines of the 64th Annual

US Department of Energy -oilandgas360

U.S. Department of Energy Announces $2M to Develop Hydrogen Technologies

360 Feed Wire The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has announced up to $2 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002376, Enabling Gasification of Blended Coal, Biomass, and Plastic Wastes to Produce Hydrogen with Potential for Net-Negative Carbon Dioxide Emissions. This FOA seeks applications for the

Europe's energy giants turn greener, but paths and targets diverge- oil and gas 360

BP Energy Outlook mulls peak oil demand, Covid impact -3 main scenarios

Argus  Global oil demand has already peaked in two of the three scenarios BP has modelled in its 2020 Energy Outlook. And there is a chance that the Covid-19 crisis will lead to acceleration of the energy transition, BP said. “This year’s Outlook explores three main scenarios — Rapid, Net Zero and Business-as-usual — which span a wide range of possible outcomes,” chief